Kaiser v. Kaiser

This is a dispute between parents over custody of their only child, a daughter, now 14 years old. It is an appeal from a denial of plaintiff’s petition to modify a decree with respect to custody.

In January, 1952, after approximately 3-1/2 years of marriage plaintiff obtained a divorce from defendant and, at that time, received custody of the child who was then 2 years of age. Plaintiff mother then took the young child and went to live in the home of her parents. In December, 1953, plaintiff was institutionalized for mental illness and restored in 1959. On June 17, 1954, the decree of divorce…